Prof. Philip Bradford

Dr. Bradford is a Professor in the Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science at North Carolina State University and a leading influencer in the Home DIY space on Instagram as @Philip_or_flop. With a PhD degree in Materials… Read More

Ozkan Yildiz

Dr. Yildiz completed his Ph.D. in Fiber and Polymer Science in 2016 under the direction of Dr. Bradford. He is currently a post-doc in the group working on ultra-long carbon nanotube array growth and developing unique devices from… Read More

Karim Aly

Dr. Aly completed his Ph.D. in Fiber and Polymer Science in 2016 under the direction of Dr. Bradford. He was a post-doc in the group until 2019 working on carbon nanotube foams and deriving other low density high… Read More

Kelly Stano

Kelly received a Ph.D. in Fiber and Polymer Science under the direction of Dr. Philip Bradford and Dr. Jesse Jur. She was also a NSF GRF award recipient. Her main research areas included surface modification of CNTs and… Read More

Shaghayegh Faraji

Shaghayegh graduated with a Ph.D. in Fiber and Polymer Science in 2016 under the direction of Dr. Bradford. Her main research interests are CNT/Carbon nanocomposites using aligned CNT preforms and their applications as low density materials in advanced… Read More

James Stahl

James graduated with a Fiber and Polymer Science Ph.D. in 2016 under the direction of Dr. Philip Bradford and Dr. Alex Bogdanovich.  He performed research focused on the modification of composite joints using shear pressed carbon nanotube arrays.

Ang Li

Ang is a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Fiber and Polymer Science in the area of high performance airship laminates. He also received his M.S. degree while in the Bradford group with his research in sensitive and… Read More

Brian Wells

Brian is a Ph.D. student perusing a co-major in Fiber & Polymer Science and MSE. He is working in the area of carbon nanotube sheet assemblies and their impacts on the sensitivity of fiber bragg grating sensors.

Jincheng Zhu

Jincheng received her M.S. degree in 2015. She worked on semi-transparent strain sensors utilizing carbon nanotube sheets mounted on thin films.

Kevin Harrow

Kevin is an undergraduate alumnus of the group. HeĀ  won an NC State undergraduate research award in 2015 to study the infiltration of low density carbon nanotube structures with polymer solutions in Dr. Bradford’s lab.